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UNHCR-GT Partnership

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Grameen Trust have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on December 29, 2009, to form a partnership to provide microfinancial services to tens of thousands of forcibly displaced people in order to facilitate their economic and financial self-sufficiency through engaging in income generating activities. The three-year agreement covers possible cooperation in an initial 14 countries in Africa, America, Asia and Europe where the two organizations believe there is a demand for microfinance services to boost livelihoods. An initial joint feasibility study will be conducted early in 2010 in Egypt, Tanzania and South Africa.

http://www.unhcr.org/4b4dda7a9.html

Grameen America Documentary Premieres at Sundance Film Festival

To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America, a documentary film about Professor Muhammad Yunus and the first women recipients of Grameen America, a microcredit program in the US run by Grameen Trust, premiered on Saturday, January 23, 2010, at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, USA. The movie was made by Ms. Gayle Ferraro, who followed Grameen Trust's activities around the world to make this movie. The movie was very well received by the audience at the Sundance Film Festival.

http://sundance.bside.com/2010/films/tocatchadollarmuhammadyunusbanksonamerica_sundance 2010

Grameen Trust Library

The Grameen Trust (GT) Library is a specialized microfinance and poverty focused library. It has a rich collection of titles on Grameen Bank, Grameen Companies, works and speeches of Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, microfinance, poverty, Social Business, Development, etc. There are 10,800 titles of books, reports, periodicals and other documents in the Library including 194 titles of new arrivals on Social Business, Poverty, Grameen, Health, Child and women development etc.

The GT Library is open to all. Interns of Grameen Bank, Grameen Trust and other Grameen organizations, researchers, students and others from different countries including UK, Germany, France, Austria, Portugal, Spain and other European countries, U.S.A, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Ghana, South Africa, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Philippines and Australia have found the library very useful for them. Till December 2009, a total of 14,887 visitors, including 12,648 foreign nationals used the facilities at Grameen Trust Library.

Report by : Md. Azizul Islam